what's the best (and cheapest) way to build a shed that can won't blown away during heavy storm?
those kit on Amazon seems flimsy, is brick and mortar the only way or is it overkill?
what's the best (and cheapest) way to build a shed that can won't blown away during heavy storm?
uhhh, wrong pic
I'm not sure it was the wrong pic for your shed.
Parents have a resin shed.
Damn near 20 years old
Ben moved 3 times and never fallen apart.
The wood base however has been swapped 2 or 3 times.
Who is Ben?
Look up mobile home tie downs. They should be strong enough for your little cuckshed , you Googleless homosexual.
>Look up mobile home tie downs.
Those screw anchors are pretty based. I built some with some worn out auger flighting and some steel rod to run up through the middle. Bent the ends up into an eye and welded them shut. Makes tying shit down to the ground nice. My main use has been tying piles of gated pipe down so the wind won't blow them away.
>worn out auger flighting and some steel rod
I expect those are nice and beastly.
There are a billion different ways to build a shed. Research it and pick the one that suits your needs the most.
>what's the best (and cheapest) way to build a shed that can won't blown away during heavy storm?
that's easy.
don't
you seem incapable
incapable of accomplishing the task presented, as well as incapable of shutting the frick up when you have nothing to add to the conversation
screw anchors. use rustoleum paint to make it last a decade or two longer
Fully welded steel box made of tubular beams is the easiest hurricane/earthquake proof shelter for your 100$ power drill.
Not very diy but
>shipping container
>Not very diy but
container
Very fricking DIY if properly outfitted by someone who avoids noob errors by properly studying how the gods of custom containers (industry and the armed forces) outfit theirs. My current total is four 40' HCs and one 20' standard bought for my rental house storage.
However they cost money and OP has none so use pallets and scrap large wooden machine crates and way too much work is what's going to happen.
shipping containers are great for storage containers. the are fricking shit and a meme for building houses and too small for a garage in the first place. the fact you're probably 30k or more into them, depending on when you bought them, is money* that could have gone to an actual barn/garage that would be bigger than them all put together.
*assuming a few years ago. I defy you to find someone to actually build something, much less for cost but shipping containers are probably at an all time high too. I realize this somewhat undercuts my argument, but that still doesn't make them a good choice.
Mine are dandy machine, welding equipment and motorcycle shop space. HCs do fine as car garages if one welds two 40' High Cubes together side-by-side then mods the end doors but I already had a Steelmaster for that. I do have two HC welded side-by-side sitting atop steel beams which was easy to do single-handed and is delightfully weatherproof. Unlike a conventional building a small dehumidifier vented overboard handles them easily.
I use two one-trip HCs for my classic motorcycle collection which make comfy ride-through garage/shop space as one row of bikes fits down each side with room to ride in or out through the center. Unlike conventional buildings I get no dust on the precious, no bugs, and no problems.
I scored full sized cylinder CO2 extinguishers at auction and can inert the bike boxes.
Conventional garages do not completely seal out critters like dirt daubers nor is any common stickbuilt garage typhoon rated. Embers bounce off containers so a firebreak is far more effective. If my neighbors woods burn I will be fine.
I don't care what residentialgays care about. Industry and the military are superior in every way so I adopted their ways and chose to live where that's no issue. If want next add will be a Steelmaster container cover between my two joined HCs and the most recent single which awaits decision atop the same foundation beams (which cost nil because barter).
I also used beam as the slab forming base for my Steelmaster which was far less work than disposable wooden forms plus I can and do weld to it.
>I defy you to find someone to actually build something, much less for cost
Why would I need to "find someone" as all my work was easily done single handed by an old cripple (me)? Welders live in container, ground to shell & run hot lead to suitcase feeder for FCAW roof work.
Are free/cheap pallets viable for shed building material or are they just a meme?
Define viable.
As in won't fall apart in the wind
how can someone who has never touched a pallet be thinking about building a shed from pallets
If you strip it down without breaking the slats, use the large 4x8 pallets 2x4's for framing, sheath it in the lath, I guess.
i looked up that video. was nice.
source?
my first shed I built a 9'x12' floor on some cement pylons then framed the whole thing from 2x4s by myself using the floor for a table. building the doors was the worst part. bought a framing nailer to do it. I bought premade joists and the only thing I had help with was moving the shingle packs to the roof. everything else was 100% by myself with just the nailer, a circle saw and hand tools.
the second shed I built was a plastic panel wall POS that bulged when I packed it and tried to hang bikes on the walls. I figured it would melt in the first direct sun without reinforcement so I paneled all the walls with plywood sheets that were bolted through to supports.
both sheds sold with the houses. since I've had two of the box style sheds that are only like 5' tall. One actually came with us in the last move, was moved as one piece and is fine to this day. The other (my brothers on property I manage) has warped, blown and fallen apart more times than I can count and wasn't worth the hassle of throwing it away.
Oh and I grew up with a metal shed and my brother and I used to climb on top. it was that flimsy steel that was, I guess, all the rage in the 60s and apart from rust it was probably the most durable and least expensive of all options.
I know the answer but you posted a bait image so frick off.
something like this maybe, harbor freight carport with concrete anchors, additional reinforcement inside, and an extra tarp on the outside
>extra tarp
you can upgrade the canvas on purchase. normal tarps will jsut eventually degrade and shred in the sun, as will the thinner normal canvas cover. This barn style with the 2" diameter bars is way more sturdy than the 1" pole carports and you don't need additional reinforcement nor an extra tarp. Still they aren't cheap, like anything done right you're going to be in for $1500+ and it still won't last like a similarly priced shed.
The extra tarp is to protect the normal canvas, when it degrades you can replace the tarp for $20 instead of the entire canvas
Find a cheap or free RV/bus/big van and just use that, junkyards use them for parts storage all the time
Put them underground and cover them with cement to make a rad bunker.
The most important thing is never leave the door open when you're not there. The shed will become a sail and fly away.
t. someone who had his shed blown away in the night cuz I stupidly left the door open to dry it out after washing the inside
Heres what i want to do:
>Underfooting dug below frost line, packed gravel
>Block foundation with rebar hammered into ground
>Blocks filled with concrete
>J bolts in the concrete, attach it to pressure treated sill plate.
>Joists attached to sill plate with hurricane ties
>2x6 walls
That should be fairly strong.
overkill and can't be easily releveled after the building settles but have fun
My girlfriend bought one of those "easy build" kits since she wanted a new shed and so I rented a table saw and split 2x4s to that they'd be stronger than regular 2x2s (I have no fricking clue WHY a kit for a shed would use those) and so we started building and immediately the pieces started cracking and braking under any kind of stress. Do NOT get these, no matter what online reviews for them say.
Quonset Huts
Easy to assemble and really strong.
https://www.steelmasterusa.com/quonset-huts/kits/sheds/
in europe we dont even have hurricanes or tornados, yet 95% of our houses are made of brick and mortar. if u live in 'american' conditions, just make a double wall with a proper filler in between. im 32 now and to this day i keep wondering why you americans make houses out of drywall crap. esp considering u guys live in hurricane/tornado erea.
For the last fricking time you European homosexual, a tornado or hurricane will rip apart a double block wall just as easily. There's a reason there weren't any permanent structures on this continent besides big mounds of dirt. Add in earthquakes as well and all you have is a more difficult and expensive cleanup.
Dont waste your time on a eurocuck. They are decended from the bootlickers who stayed put when better opportunity and freedom were offered because le wind is le strong.
So you replaced the kit wood with your own. Then your wood split and cracked. Therefore the kit is shit? Ok.
Yes, but he still wants to anchor it for high winds.
These type of kits don't come with wood and just tell you to buy a certain amount of 2x2s
Also the wood didn't start breaking, the actual pieces of the brackets that are supposed to hold everything together started breaking.
Pack the sides of your shed with emough dirt to make a mound the wind sweeps smoothly over
make it one 1x1 16 gauge steel then just screw in some fricking 2x20ft corrugated steel sheets for walls and roof and your done.
Flat pack shipping container
f you don't want it to blow awy dig some holes and pour some concrete piers with anchor bolts sticking out to hold it down then put some sort of skirting around the bottom so wind can't get underneath it.
Build a super Adobe shed. It is extremely strong, cheap and is built for emergency housing. Look up Nader Khalili and CalEarth.